Women Writers: A Zine, is accepting proposals for a guest editorship on aspecial woman-related themed issue/topic for the Summer 2005 digital issueof the feminist-oriented webzine. See the website at:http://www.womenwriters.net/

Philament, the online journal of cultural studies and literary arts affiliatedwith the University of Sydney(http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament), invites postgraduatescholars to contribute articles, reviews, and creative work to its upcomingissue entitled XXX.

Negotiating Gender: New Perspectives on Asian American Literary Studies

This proposed collection of essays intends to tackle a fundamental issue inAsian American literary studies—the gender gap, i.e. a fission roughlyalong gender lines in Asian American thinking and articulation about ethnicidentity. Ever since the early 1970s, Asian American feminists andnationalists have been engaged in a heated exchange on the roles of gender,race, and culture in the formation of an Asian American identity, withgender being the defining element. While the debate has invigorated AsianAmerican critical discourse, the prolonged warring atmosphere has alsodivided Asian American community.